Con Ed Workers Approve Contract
Date: 16 August 2012
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Le 15 août 2012 était un mercredi sous le signe astral du ♌. C'était le 227ème jour de l'année. Le président des États-Unis était Barack Obama.
Si vous êtes né ce jour-là, vous avez 13 ans. Ton dernier anniversaire était le vendredi 15 août 2025, il y a 292 jours. Votre prochain anniversaire est le samedi 15 août 2026, dans 72 jours. Vous avez vécu 5 040 jours, soit environ 120 974 heures, ou environ 7 258 446 minutes, ou environ 435 506 760 secondes.
Date: 16 August 2012
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
Douglas QUENQUA
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that teenagers are about as likely to have intercourse before engaging in oral sex as they are to have oral sex first; finding challenges popular perception that teenagers who are not ready for intercourse are experimenting with oral sex en masse.
Date: 16 August 2012
By ZACH SCHONBRUN
Zach SCHONBRUN
New York Yankees defeat Texas Rangers, 3-2; Yankees pitcher Freddy Garcia has another solid outing.
Date: 16 August 2012
By HELENE COOPER
Helene COOPER
President Barack Obama, on the last day of his three-day bus tour of Iowa, sharply attacks Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul D Ryan for advocating budget cuts that he said would curtail Medicare benefits.
Date: 16 August 2012
By ETHAN BRONNER
Ethan BRONNER
Judge Robert Simpson of Pennsylvania, a Republican, declines to block newly enacted state law requiring specific kinds of photo identification to vote; liberal groups, arguing that minorities and the poor would be disproportionately deprived of the ability to vote, say they will appeal to the State Supreme Court to stop the law before the November elections.
Date: 16 August 2012
By SARAH MASLIN NIR
Sarah NIR
Officials of Major League Soccer are negotiating to locate a 20th franchise in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, in what would be New York City's first professional soccer team; new stadium would hold about 25,000 spectators and construction would create more than 2,000 temporary jobs and 300 permanent ones; proposed team does not yet have a name or an owner.
Date: 16 August 2012
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Richard PÉREZ-PEÑA
Georgetown University study shows that Americans with no more than a high school education have continued to lose jobs during the recovery from the recession, shedding 200,000 jobs from early 2010 to early 2012, while better educated people have gained millions of jobs.